...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

Refrain from being selfish to others, instead make some friend and stand up with dignity.

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.

We're all going to hell for the songs we sing.

There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

What I can control is how I react. I can't control anything else.

I'm polite. I guess that's the dichotomy within me. I don't like to piss people off just for the sake of pissing them off. I pick my battles.

I am not getting you a brain, because I am not that kind of assistant, Dr. Frankenstein.

He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania